Urban Arts × Copilot Innovations
AI Workshop Hub

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For Leadership AI Workshop Hub

Everything from our work together, in one place.

A central home for the deliverables, decisions, and next steps from the Urban Arts AI workshop — designed to be revisited as your team moves from ideas into action.

Prepared for the Urban Arts Executive Leadership team  ·  By Copilot Innovations  ·  May 2026
Our Journey Together

How we got here — step by step.

From the first call through the deliverables on this page, and into the next thirty days — the full arc of our work together at a glance.

Before the Workshop
In the Workshop
After the Workshop
01
Executive Call
Aligned on goals, scope, and what success looks like for Urban Arts.
02
Pre-Workshop Survey
Surfaced where the team stood on AI before we walked in the door.
03
State of AI in Nonprofits
Framed the landscape — what's real, what's hype, where peers are.
04
Innovation Sprint
A hackathon-style burst to prototype what AI could feel like in practice.
05
Use-Case Playbook
Hands-on session generating ideas across five functional pillars.
06
AI Canvas Deep Dive
Pressure-tested the top idea across thirteen dimensions.
07
Review & Next Steps
This hub itself — synthesizing what we learned and planning what's next.
Workshop Deliverables

Five artifacts to revisit and build from.

Each link below opens the full deliverable. Bookmark this hub — everything stays in one place as your team moves forward.

— Deliverable 01
PDF
Workshop Presentation Slides

The deck we walked through together — framing AI for nonprofits, the Urban Arts opportunity landscape, and the methodology behind each exercise we ran in the room.

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— Deliverable 02
Interactive
Pre-Workshop Survey Story

Themes and insights from the pre-workshop survey — what your team told us before we ever walked in the door. Where you're confident, where you're cautious, and where the energy already is.

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— Deliverable 03
Live
Hackathon Demos

Working prototypes built during the Copilot Innovations hackathon — simulated AI experiences that show what a handful of Urban Arts use cases could look and feel like in practice.

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— Deliverable 04
Interactive
AI Opportunity Report

A synthesis of all 61 workshop ideas — clustered into seven strategic themes, plotted on an impact-vs-effort matrix, with eight Lighthouse opportunities, a Now/Next/Later roadmap, and an AI Canvas deep-dive on the Game Academy use case.

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— Deliverable 05
Proposal
AI Roadmap & Engagement Proposal

Five organization-wide AI initiatives — pulled directly from the post-workshop debrief and sequenced into a 6-month portfolio framework. Includes a fractional AI Co-Leader support layer and three engagement tiers so leadership can pick the right pace and depth of commitment. Grant writing, major donor prospecting, data infrastructure, program scale, and brand ecosystem: the full picture for what comes next.

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The Next 30 Days

Four moves to turn momentum into action.

A workshop is only as valuable as what happens next. These are the four conversations we'd suggest leadership prioritize over the next month.

01
Move 01 · This week
Identify the shortlist of AI use cases to pilot.

From the eight Lighthouse Opportunities in the report, pick two or three that get green-lit for a pilot in the next 90 days. The strongest "Now"-bucket candidates: a grant-writing co-pilot and an async onboarding & training library — both low-effort, high-trust wins to build organizational confidence.

02
Move 02 · Within two weeks
Get the right people on the bus.

Name internal AI champions across the team — workshop participants are the natural starting point. On the external side, the Copilot Innovations team is ready to plug in wherever it's helpful: implementation, pilot scoping, vendor selection, or change management.

03
Move 03 · Within three weeks
Have the org-readiness & budget conversation.

An honest discussion about staff capacity, infrastructure, and the dollars required. AI implementations don't have to be expensive, but they do require deliberate investment — in tooling, in review time, and in protecting space for the team to learn new ways of working.

04
Move 04 · Before any pilot launches
Define how success will be measured.

Pick three to five KPIs per pilot, set baselines, and agree on a 90-day check-in cadence. The AI Canvas inside the Opportunity Report has a strong starter set of metrics for the Game Academy use case — use that as the template for the others.

A Note from Copilot Innovations

Thank you for the trust, the openness, and the honest exchange.

To the Urban Arts leadership and the entire team that joined us in the room — thank you. The conversations were generous, the ideas were unguarded, and the willingness to imagine new ways of working was the thing that made this workshop click.

The ideas captured in these deliverables aren't ours. They're yours — surfaced, organized, and reflected back. Our role was to help you see the whole picture at once. What you do with it is the part we're most excited to watch.

If anything in these deliverables sparks a question, or if you'd like to talk through a specific use case in more depth, we're a message away. Onward.

— The Copilot Innovations team Daniel Townsend & the Copilots team